Israel acknowledges attempting to burn with fire 200 Israeli civilians, as a consequence of indiscriminately firing on Hamas while in possession of Israeli hostages, believed at least 200 of the burnt bodies which they collected were Israeli civilians, but now acknowledges that those 200 turned out to be Hamas fighters, Hamas being accused of burning not themselves, but Israelis with fire, leaving Israel as the party with both the motive and the means to burn their own Israeli civilians held hostage alive.